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In 2026, we celebrate 80 years! Please find our season programme below…
25 April — Kia Maumahara: Songs of Remembrance
Join us for a profound musical commemoration this ANZAC Day as we give voice to memory—personal, communal, and national. As part of the Hamilton Civic Choir 2026 Concert Season, He Reo Tuuhonohono- A Tapestry of Song, Remembrance is an active, living act. Through a powerful programme of choral reflection, we honour those who have gone before us and the enduring stories carried in their experiences. Opening with David Hamilton: “A Song of Remembrance”—a poignant choral work of modern reflection, taking a traditional poem “ We shall keep the faith” and inserting an anonymous but also most childlike refrain- “Poppy, Poppy what should we know?” Then presenting the main work by Hamiltonian, Janet Jennings: “Anzacs: A Generation Lost in Legend”—opening with a haunting solo violin, the work is a setting of words from wartime poets. Featuring young soloists; : Christian Thurston, Bella Allan-Moetaua, Jordan Fonoti-Fuimaono, and welcoming treble choir Nota Bella, from Auckland’s Westlake Girls High School. The final piece was also written by a local musician, Angela Edmeades-Smith: “Lest We Forget”—a solemn and stirring call to memory with the famous John McCrae poem “In Flanders Fields” and Robert Binyon’s “For The Fallen” culminating in the ever haunting Last Post.
Accompanied by the majestic resonance of organ, brass, and percussion, these works create a landscape of sound that bridges the past and the present.
Come and be part of this living act of remembrance.
13 June — Maana e Whakarewa: RAISING VOICES IN SONG a concert to support the St Peter’s Cathedral earthquake strengthening fundraising.
19 September — TIAKINA TE REO WAIATA: KEEPING THE SONG ALIVE – 80th Anniversary Celebration, Cambridge Town Hall
12 December — KIA TIPU O NGAA WAIATA: LET THE SONGS FLOURISH– Handel’s Messiah (Part One) & Messe de Minuit pour Noël(Charpentier)
PAST CONCERTS (2025)
2025 Concert 4 in December – SOUNDS OF SPLENDOUR
2025 Concert 3 in September – MISSAE SPLENDORE
2025 Concert 2 in June – FOLLOW THE STAR
2025 Concert 1 in April – CEREMONIAL SPLENDOUR
Thank you for attending!
WATCH US SING
Vivaldi – “Gloria“
September 2023
Forrest – 1st movement of “Requiem for the Living”
September 2023
J.S. Bach – “St Mathew Passion“
March 2021